Posted on 08/12/2009 2:14:01 AM PDT by Jonny foreigner
with a name like that it must be of ice breaker class and a rather small <400 foot breakbulker
to hijack a freighter with only 2M dollars in timber sounds a bit odd too
Russian criminals maybe or insurance scam?
here is an update if you are interested.
Russian navy joins hunt for ship (including submarines)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8197248.stm
btw. this story is getting stranger every hour because why would russia use even their nuclear submarines to hunt down a low worth cargo ship. what to hell is on bord on this ship? timber? well i´m starting to think that i don´t believe that Timber is the only cargo.
where are the ship’s owners, cargo owners and insurers in all this?
radio contact from time to time via satphone or ship-shore is pretty common...even back in my day
we would get a patch through from Azores or Bermuda when crossing the pond or a big tanker with up to the minute comm gear would relay ship’s progress to me via satfax if they passed within VHF range as a courtesy
ship shore calls then were about 10 bucks a minute..this ship is about the same DWT as one of mine but newer...nice gear on her in that pic....3 holds and hatches with her fore and aft Macgregors partially opened while underway...a dryout I guess
maybe they wanted the ship...she’s only 17 years old...keeping Brit Lloyds and Russian class which in the case of the former ain’t cheap
Finnish built too I think...a fine ship I’d wager...worth a multiple of that cargo but with all this publicity unless she’s scuttled or broken up at some third world steel breakerage I’d wager she’s found
yeah but I’m gonna guess this is a 8-10 million dollar ship if she is Finnish built which I believe she is...well geared and looks like she’s been kept up and classed well
that is a lot to jettison over an arms deal
Exactly. What kind of rocket surgeon criminals hijack a boat load of lumber?
Well...we’ll see where she turns up. Maybe Guajira, maybe Nica, maybe Venezuela.
I think that may speak to what its all about.
They found it off the Cape Verde islands..see my recent link...up the thread.
strange...a scam maybe
or maybe it wasn’t carrying timber at all! seems like a crazy place to hijack a ship, in english waters like. Not exactly the spanish main is it?
but very bad luck to rename a ship
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